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— E.E. Cummings

It is said that if the dead who died in the Great

War were placed head to feet, they would stretch

from New York to San Francisco, and from San

Francisco back again to New York; and if those

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Dictionary Entry

gravure

Part of SpeechnounPronunciationgra-VOOR

A type of intaglio printing process, in which an image is engraved onto a rotating copper cylinder.

In a Sentence

“The museum displayed a gravure print of a cityscape, created by engraving the image onto a copper cylinder.”

Origin

From French gravure, derived from Latin gravare ‘to carve’.

Common Phrases

printing gravure. gravuresur gravureen gravurecylinder gravureprocess gravuregravure lagravure meriden

Synonyms

photogravureheliogravure

Antonyms

digital printing

Related Words

line engravingengravertoreuticschalypsographymillcradle

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